Metal fly-protector for shoes.



L. FEINSTEIN. METAL FLY PROTECTOR FOR SHOES.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 24, 1908.

907,584, Patented De0.22, 1908.

Attest: Inventor:

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LOUIS FEINSTEIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

METAL FLY-PROTECTOR FOR SHOES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

Application filed March 24, 1908. Serial No. 423,022.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LoUIs FEINSTEIN, a subject of Russia, having declared my intention of becoming a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, city and State of New York, (whose postoffice address is Nos. 17 93-95 Prospect Place, in the said borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, city and State of New York,) have invented a new and useful Metal Fly-Protector for Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to closures for shoes and particularly to the part known as the fly.

The objects are to prevent tearing at the buttonholes, or lacing eyelets, as the case may be, and to minimize the stretching and distortion of the fly by long use.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of a portion of the fly of a button shoe with parts broken away and with buttonholes shown in the upper part only. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22, Fig. 1.

In these drawings, 1 and 2 represent the usual inner and outer layers or sheets of the fly connected at their margins, and 3 an intermediate reinforcing fabric strip through which the button or lacing holes pass. The outer marginal portion of this strip is hemmed over a small strengthening rod 4, the hem approximately filling the space be tween the holes and the lateral margin of the fly and having its own outer side a little within and closely following the contour of said lateral margin.

The strip is held in place by the buttonhole work and by stitching, as appears from the drawings. The rod 4 may be a metal wire of cylindrical form; but it is not essential that its cross section be circular.

The doubled fabric and inclosed rod lying in the narrow space between the buttonholes and the margin of the fly, give great strength where strength is needed and are practically very effective in preventing stretching of this portion of the fly in any direction and at the same time practically doing away with tearing at the button or lacing holes.

IVhat I claim is:

1. In a shoe, the combination with a fly primarily consisting of two layers united at the free margin of the fly, of a reinforcing strip concealed between said layers, and provided with a hem closely following the contour of the flys margin, and a strengthening rod lying within said hem.

2. In a shoe, the combination with a fly primarily consisting of two layers of stock united at their margins, of an interposed strengthening rod near and following said margin, and a fabric strip entirely concealed between said layers and hemmed over said rod, substantially as set forth.

3. In a shoe, a fly provided with apertures for shoe fastenings and consisting of registering outer and inner layers secured together at their free margins, a rod concealed between said layers and following approximately, their united free lateral margins, a fabric strip entirely inclosed between said layers and hemmed over said rod, and aperture-reinforoing devices passing through said layers and strip and binding them together, substantially as set forth.

LOUIS FEINSTEIN.

Witnesses:

DAVID P. GoLDsTEIN, MEYER GoLnsTEIN. 

